Scurvy is caused by a prolong lack of vitamin C in the diet. Vitamin C comes from fresh fruits and vegetables. Scurvy is a painful disease. The gums become swollen, spongy, bleed easily, and loose their support tissue allowing the teeth to fall out. Joints become swollen and painful and don't function well. Blood vessels burst under the skin and cause dark blotches progressing up the leg to the middle of the thigh ("black leg disease"). The victim is constantly complaining, extremely weak, and faints often. Death follows episodes of severe vomiting.
Typhus caused people’s faces to swell and darken. The Irish called it black fever (fiabhras dubh).A person suffering from typhus would
have severe pain, a burning fever and a rash. Visitors would know that there was typhus in a house by the smell, which could often be got from outside.
Relapsing fever was also carried by
Lice. One of the symptoms was jaundice,
Which caused the skin to turn yellow?
So it called yellow fever .A patient would
Have serve sweating and vomiting for
Several days.
Scurvy is caused by a prolong lack of vitamin C in the diet. Vitamin C comes from fresh fruits and vegetables. Scurvy is a painful disease. The gums become swollen, spongy, bleed easily, and loose their support tissue allowing the teeth to fall out. Joints become swollen and painful and don't function well. Blood vessels burst under the skin and cause dark blotches progressing up the leg to the middle of the thigh ("black leg disease"). The victim is constantly complaining, extremely weak, and faints often. Death follows episodes of severe vomiting.
Typhus caused people’s faces to swell and darken. The Irish called it black fever (fiabhras dubh).A person suffering from typhus would
have severe pain, a burning fever and a rash. Visitors would know that there was typhus in a house by the smell, which could often be got from outside.
Relapsing fever was also carried by
Lice. One of the symptoms was jaundice,
Which caused the skin to turn yellow?
So it called yellow fever .A patient would
Have serve sweating and vomiting for
Several days.